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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are empowering people all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key 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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