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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online learning have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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