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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning are empowering humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better perceive these new open education endeavours. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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