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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in electronic education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Iraq to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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