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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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