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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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