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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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