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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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