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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Jersey to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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