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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in electronic education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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