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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning enable people all around the world to participate in classes online. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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