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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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