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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning are empowering students in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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