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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in digital education technology make it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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