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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these important new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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