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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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