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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Mongolia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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