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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open education initiatives. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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