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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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