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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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