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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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