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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology enable humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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