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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education are enabling students in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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