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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations must deal with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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