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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Saint Helena to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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