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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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