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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in elearning have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important 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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