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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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