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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in online education technology have made it possible for students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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