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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning are enabling people all around the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Zimbabwe to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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