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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning technology enable learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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