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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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