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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in digital education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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