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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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