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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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