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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning are empowering learners in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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