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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in elearning enable learners all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning institutions must deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these significant new open education endeavours. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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