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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning are empowering people all over the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can educators manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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