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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better grasp these promising new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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