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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning have empowered people all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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