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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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