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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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