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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning are empowering students all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Excelsior College to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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