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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online education have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Baker Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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