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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning have enabled students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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