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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Chile to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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