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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in e-learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education ventures. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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