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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning are empowering students all over the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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