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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology have empowered people in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are usually 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 numerous issues that learning technology institutions have to consider now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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