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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have made it possible for students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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