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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in blended learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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