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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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