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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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