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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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