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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in technology-enhanced learning enable people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Emory University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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