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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mayotte to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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