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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are considering now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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