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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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