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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations must deal with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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