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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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