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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in digital education technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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