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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning have provided the means for students all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Colorado System to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to understand these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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