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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Marquette University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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