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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Davidson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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