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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in elearning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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