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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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