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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning enable humans all around the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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