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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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