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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students in nations all aver the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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