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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in digital education technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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