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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in blended learning have made it possible for students all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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