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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Czech Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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