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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 several subjects that blended learning organizations are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to understand these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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