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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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