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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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