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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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