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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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