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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these open education undertakings. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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