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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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