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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online learning have made it possible for humans all over the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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