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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Qatar to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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