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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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