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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning are enabling students in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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