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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in electronic education technology enable learners all over the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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