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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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