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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning enable students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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