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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in digital education technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for data the inspiring 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 definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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