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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology have empowered students in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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