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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in blended learning have made it possible for people all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions are having to consider today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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