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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to take online classes. 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. MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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