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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nicaragua to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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