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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in digital education technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are dealing with now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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