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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education are making it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these significant new open educational undertakings. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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