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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education have enabled students in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Kenya to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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