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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in blended learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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