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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in electronic educational technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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