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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in blended learning enable people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open education endeavours. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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