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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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