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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning have empowered students all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are considering more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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