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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in online learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like American College of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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