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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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