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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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