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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic education technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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