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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Davidson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education