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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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