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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in digital education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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