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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in blended learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this growing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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