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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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