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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations have to consider today because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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