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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are considering now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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