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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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