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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to understand these important new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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