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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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