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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in blended learning technology enable learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. People want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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