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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in digital education technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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