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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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