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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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