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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Zimbabwe to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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