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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also describes 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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