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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in digital education technology enable students all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Broward College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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