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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that elearning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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