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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Zambia to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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