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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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