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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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