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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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