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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in learning technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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