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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in blended learning have empowered students all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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