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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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