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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in digital education technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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