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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take courses online. These online MOOCs are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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