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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in blended learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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