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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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