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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in blended learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open education undertakings. Universities want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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