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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning are empowering learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Students want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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