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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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