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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in blended learning technology enable students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. 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. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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