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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology enable humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Hungary to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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