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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Rochester to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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