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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brunei to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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