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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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