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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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