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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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