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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Academics want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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