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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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