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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other participants want to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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