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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these significant new open education ventures. Universities want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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