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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in online education technology enable people all over the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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