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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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