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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to understand these significant new open educational endeavours. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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