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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado System to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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