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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in digital education technology are empowering students all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOC classes are mostly free 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 many issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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