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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are considering now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Academics want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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