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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology enable students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like New Zealand to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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