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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are empowering humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education ventures. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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