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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. 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 courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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