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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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