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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational ventures. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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