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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic education technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the key 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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