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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brazil to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the 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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