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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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