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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning enable humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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