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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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