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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in blended learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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