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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to understand these important new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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