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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in elearning are empowering learners all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other participants desire to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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