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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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