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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Netherlands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. People want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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