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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these MOOC classes? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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