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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are considering today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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