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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this demand for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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