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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Excelsior College to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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