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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in blended learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Fiji to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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