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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in digital education technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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