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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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