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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. 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. These MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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