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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational undertakings. People want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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