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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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