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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Utah to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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