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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in digital education technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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