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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Clemson University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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