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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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