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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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