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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in e-learning technology have made it possible for humans in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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