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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Students want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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