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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Lebanon to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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