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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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