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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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