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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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