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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in blended learning have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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