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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Czech Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better understand these important new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this expanding need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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