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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tumblr to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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