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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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