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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning are empowering learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open education initiatives. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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