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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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