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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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