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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Scientists want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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