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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Peru to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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