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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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