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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology make it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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