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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners 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 lot of issues that blended learning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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