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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online learning have enabled people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Nauru to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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