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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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