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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in elearning enable learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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