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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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