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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning have enabled learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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