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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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