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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning technology enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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