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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the 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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