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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the most important 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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