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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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