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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to understand these significant new open educational endeavours. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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