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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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