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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in electronic education technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly 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 topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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