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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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