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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Serbia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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