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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in blended learning technology make it possible for learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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