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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in electronic educational technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Open2Study to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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