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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better perceive these significant new open education endeavours. People want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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