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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in digital education technology enable learners all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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