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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered students all over the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these important new open education ventures. Trainers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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