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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education technology are empowering learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to consider now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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