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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in digital education technology enable humans all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education