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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning enable people all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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