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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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