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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology institutions are considering today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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