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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are considering now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these fascinating new open education initiatives. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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