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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Gibraltar to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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