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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic educational technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open education undertakings. Students want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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