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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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