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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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