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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Lebanon to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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