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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education are enabling students all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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