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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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