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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in blended learning are enabling learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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