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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in elearning are making it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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