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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in elearning have enabled students all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better grasp these open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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