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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning have enabled learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Georgetown University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. People want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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