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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in e-learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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