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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Santa Clara University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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