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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in online learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many subjects that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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