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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning enable learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. 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. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several topics that learning technology institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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