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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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