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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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