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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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