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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC courses? How can participants manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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