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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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