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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning institutions are considering now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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