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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Italy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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