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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Open2Study to conduct these massive open online courses? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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