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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are considering now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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