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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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