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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in blended learning are empowering humans all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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