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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in blended learning technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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