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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in blended learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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