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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Scholars want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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