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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in blended learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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