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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning technology have empowered students all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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