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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology institutions must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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