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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning make it possible for humans all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Qatar to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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