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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education are enabling students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning institutions are considering now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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