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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in blended learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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