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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Poland to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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