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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ecuador to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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