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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in electronic educational technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to consider today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? This open education book offers guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning experience. How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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