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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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