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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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