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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are dealing with now that blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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