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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in elearning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Nicaragua to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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