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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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