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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in elearning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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