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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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