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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in electronic education technology have enabled humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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