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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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