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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions must deal with now that distance learning technology is developing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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