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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology make it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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