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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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