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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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