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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning are empowering learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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