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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology enable learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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