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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in blended learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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