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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in digital education technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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