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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in blended learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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