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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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