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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning are making it possible for students in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations must deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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