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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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