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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning technology enable students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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