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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in digital education technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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