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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better understand these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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