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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have enabled students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations are considering now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also examines the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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