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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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