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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like India to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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