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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in blended learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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