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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in elearning have provided the means for learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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