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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic educational technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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