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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to understand these new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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