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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in digital education technology are making it possible for students all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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