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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in blended learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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