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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in blended learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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