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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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