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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning are providing the means for students all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Scientists want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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