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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in elearning technology are enabling students all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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