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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in blended learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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