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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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