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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning have made it possible for learners all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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