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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning are empowering students all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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