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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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