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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in blended learning technology have empowered learners in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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