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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in 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. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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