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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology make it possible for students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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