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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in electronic education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yemen to conduct these massive open online courses? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education ventures. Instructors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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