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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning have empowered people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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