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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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