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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online learning have empowered people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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