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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in elearning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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