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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take online classes. 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. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. MOOC classes are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are considering today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Rutgers University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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