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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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