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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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