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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth 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. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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