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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in blended learning have made it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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