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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bellevue University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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