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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online learning are empowering people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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

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