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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in blended learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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