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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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