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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mali to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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