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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning have provided the means for learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions must deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Public servants want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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