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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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