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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in online education are enabling students in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ecuador to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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