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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning enable people all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Santa Clara University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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