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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these important new open education initiatives. Educators want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for data the sensational 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 major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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