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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in digital education technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these compelling new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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