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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Greenland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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