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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in blended learning are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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