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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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