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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. People want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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