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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Zambia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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