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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology are enabling learners in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these important new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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