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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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