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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in electronic education technology have empowered students all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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