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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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