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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions must deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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