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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in blended learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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