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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ethiopia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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