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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in blended learning technology make it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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