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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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