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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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