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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bowling Green State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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