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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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