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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are considering now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bolivia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates 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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