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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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