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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in blended learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers 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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