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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest developments in online education are empowering students all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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