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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning enable people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like San Marino to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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