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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in blended learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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