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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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