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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in blended learning are enabling learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also studies 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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