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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open education ventures. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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