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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like The Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also researches the major 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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