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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education have made it possible for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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