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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ross Dependency to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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