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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education are empowering students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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