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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in blended learning are empowering people all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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