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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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