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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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