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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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