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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology have empowered learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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