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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education are enabling students all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. People want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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