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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like American College of Education to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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