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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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