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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to understand these promising new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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