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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in learning technology enable humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Emory University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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