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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses online. 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 MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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