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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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