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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in blended learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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