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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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