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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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