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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for details the amazing 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 discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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