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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in elearning enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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