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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology make it possible for humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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