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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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