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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are providing the means for learners all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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