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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these exciting new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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