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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational ventures. Scientists want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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