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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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