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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are considering more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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