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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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