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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in digital education technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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