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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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