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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning enable students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these compelling new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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