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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in blended learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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