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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in digital education technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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