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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better understand these open educational experiments. People want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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