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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Comoros to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these compelling new open educational undertakings. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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