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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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