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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online learning have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is passable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Students want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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