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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in electronic education technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to consider now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to better grasp these significant new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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