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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like New Caledonia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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