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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions must deal with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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