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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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