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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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