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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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