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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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