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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions must deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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