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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Senegal to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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