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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are empowering students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students 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 numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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