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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in elearning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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