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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are considering today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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