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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning have empowered learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Virginia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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