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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Romania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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