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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning make it possible for people all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources