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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better grasp these compelling new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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