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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in electronic education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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