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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these interesting new open education ventures. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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