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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in blended learning enable students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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