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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education technology enable humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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