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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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