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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Universities want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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