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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in blended learning are making it possible for people all over the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Faroe Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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