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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning are enabling learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these important new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also describes the 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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