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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are almost always 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 topics that e-learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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