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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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