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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are considering now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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