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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better perceive these significant new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the most important 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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