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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Rochester to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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