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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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