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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in elearning have empowered students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts the exciting 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 thrilling new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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