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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in blended learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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