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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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