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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in digital education technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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