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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New developments in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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