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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in e-learning are enabling students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these important new open education undertakings. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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