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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to consider today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sri Lanka to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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