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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in online education enable students in every nation on earth to take online classes. 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. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Public servants want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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