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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ukraine to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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