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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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