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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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