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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in blended learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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