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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education have provided the means for humans all over the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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