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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in blended learning enable people all over the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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