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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these open education ventures. Students want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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