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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have made it possible for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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