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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 enable learners all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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