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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning have empowered students all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Zambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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