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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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