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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in blended learning technology are enabling students all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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