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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are struggling with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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