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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning are empowering learners all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Emory University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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