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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Suriname to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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