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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are considering more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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