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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online learning technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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