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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in online courses. 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. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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