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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning enable people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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