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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education are enabling students all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bellevue University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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