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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in digital education technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Sri Lanka to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. People want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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