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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning enable students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that online education institutions are considering in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open education initiatives. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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