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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better understand these open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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