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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations must deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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