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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yemen to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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