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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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