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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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