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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to take classes 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. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nicaragua to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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