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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in blended learning technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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