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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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