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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in distance learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Belgium to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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