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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Michigan State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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