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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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