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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions must deal with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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