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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning are enabling students all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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