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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education have empowered learners all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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