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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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