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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Educators want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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