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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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