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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in electronic education technology enable humans in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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