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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in electronic education technology are enabling humans all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are struggling with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Meetup to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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