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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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