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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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