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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning are enabling humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Babson College to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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