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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in online education are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions must deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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