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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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