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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in blended learning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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