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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are considering in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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