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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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