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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education are making it possible for students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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