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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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