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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions must deal with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Guadeloupe to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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