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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in blended learning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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