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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in blended learning technology enable students all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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