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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in e-learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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