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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online education have empowered people all around the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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