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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. 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. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. People want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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