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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are empowering learners all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational ventures. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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