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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Angola to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these important new open educational endeavours. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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