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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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