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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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