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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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