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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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