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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education are enabling students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions are having to consider now that blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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