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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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