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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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