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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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