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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Thailand to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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