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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online education are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like YouTube to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better understand these open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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