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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning have enabled students all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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