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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology enable learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also examines 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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