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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are considering more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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