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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology make it possible for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Broward College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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