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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open educational undertakings. Students want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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