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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in digital education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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