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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology are making it possible for students all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Instructors want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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