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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Central Florida to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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