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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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