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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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