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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education enable students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Guam to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Corporations want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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